"Operation Baby's Room"

We bought new hardwood flooring for the living room a few weeks ago. This saturday I decided was time to begin tearing up the old floor. Many people who have visited our home have questioned the need to do this, as the floors didn't look that bad despite the color and some large black stains. Well little did they know that while the floors on top were ok it was what was under them that scared us. Take a look:
Doesn't look so bad huh! I think these will stay.

Hmmmm, doesn't look like these are going to stay, as a matter of fact i know the subflooring here is completely coming out. This is the trouble area in the room. Since we moved in our dining room has had "soft" spots that scared visitors and Randi. Something about falling through... blah blah blah. So i wouldn't fall through i had a piece of plywood i would sit on.




This room is unique as half of it is technically out side the foundation of the house. I am standing on the load bearing wall of the basement here, tricky footing.

And finally the surprise... tah dah!!! Here is where the baby will stay. We think this is a perfect location, and we get to keep the guest bedroom for guest... come one come all! This room is located next to the kitchen so we can just throw scarps down to the baby. also because it is fully contained their is no way of escape. finally the dirt floor we think will help us save money on diapers... poop all you want its dirt! * For those that don't know me i am kidding... Randi is actually moving down here.

And here is the dining room without a subfloor. I think the value of the house just tripled, we are getting good at this renovation thing. Stay tuned more to come in the following weeks.

"Built In" Phase 2

The shelf looks nice with just one coat of primer. Randi worked really hard last night and made good progress. It blends with the wall real nice and you almost don't realize it is there. We will be doing a semi-gloss white as the paint color so it will "pop' a little with the light. The walls will eventually be painted a light grey almost white so there will be a little contrast between the shelf and wall.

"Built In"

Well a simple saturday project has finally come to an end. We were only suppose to clean up and repaint the old built in book shelf making the project short and only to take on saturday. Turns out it didn't want to cooperate and we ended up tearing it out and had a huge hole in the wall for about two months now. slowly we did a little here and there and finally being tired of the mess finished building a new book shelf. we are excited and ready to get all of our books off the floor. Randi is in the process of painting it.





The idea is that the book shelf be a continuation of the wall. We borrowed a planer and created a 1 1/2" boarder with 3/4" shelves that are all flush. It is really clean due to the shleves being placed into a dato. Let's see if Randi can make it nice with a little paint.